By engaging with ChapGPT, you, Will Stelter, have started the clock marking the inception of the Zombie Apocalypse. Thanks, dude. Merry Christmas and cheers.
That comment on hard hammer on hard steel... I know a guy that was trying to replace a broken tooth on an excavator. He was fresh into the construction industry and was given a hammer and told to hammer the old tooth out and hammer a new one in. After a couple of swings he felt some pain in his eye and lost vision in that eye. He's been wearing a glass eye since. Wear your PPE when called for and never hammer hard metal with hard metal my friends.
I was repairing a barrel, and was tightening down the hoops, when I was working in a winery and had a hammerhead chip on me. Shot off the hammerhead, and into my arm just above the wrist. Slid between the tendons and turned sideways afterwards, getting trapped. Fortunately it missed the veins and arteries. I could move it with a magnet, but couldn't work it back out and had to go into a clinic to get it removed. Doctor cauterized the wound to seal it and still have that scar.
For gloves, I took a welding glove and cut all the fingers off, leaving a half finger for the ring finger and thumb. Then I cut the palm off, then sewed a elastic strap across it. Trimmed the cuff halfway. Cuts the heat down to a bearable temp, without obstructing my control much. Sparks are easy to deal with since you can pull the glove away cause of the strap. Won't help with actually holding the hot objects, as I somehow keep reminding myself accidentally.
Merry Christmas Will keep up the good work, on my bucket list is to own one of your knives that you made personally we just haven’t got the funds yet to buy on, but it is on my bucket list and I will own one someday.
1:26 aprons or welding hoods to a blacksmith are like cowboy hats to a cowboy, you don’t fucking touch them unless your in the market for a fist on your jaw.
So now that you've moved into the shop you and Alec Steele set up and used to work in, what happened to the shop that you started this channel with? Still using it but only for personal stuff? Just collecting dust? Or rented out or sold off now that you have somewhere else to work and can produce at volume?
I need to find a left handed smith. I go through left gloves a lot.. Because I only wear them on my tong hand. So I have lots of right hand gloves.. no left. ( I have found some knitted gloves for the stove, that are “either Hand” so you can buy a pair and get two left gloves
I don't like wearing gloves I just use the Kevlar sleeves that have the openings for your fingers all in one hole and a separate hole that locks it around your thumb . I like that they go all the way up to my elbows preventing those pesky little spark burns .
I mean you can get brands for non-livestock uses but its mostly for woodworking. Think of a branded oak barrel or or cask. Not the most used item, but could be fun if you didn't buy it yourself.
A good anvil. I have never even heard of a blacksmith with one anvil or an anvil that fits all of their needs. Yeah, that was pretty uncanny-valley but remember that you are helping train the AI to get better at answering questions. So yes, more such Q&A sessions could be cool.
Brudder you must not have met very many blacksmiths then. Lots of blacksmiths have more than one but the vast majority of blacksmiths are the weekend warriors and hobbyists who can't afford or don't have space for more than one anvil. You really don't need more than one.
1:30 To be honest when I think of leather aprons I think of MichaelCthulhu and his, and the one he auctioned off after it became more patches than apron.
Well as metal workers. We are kind of hoarders. So we dont throw out or junk files. We use them until junk and just keep them in the drawer. You know this. Man.
Ngl I think that entire list is decent. I need gloves all the time they are always getting burned ruined soaked filled with demon glitter from the die grinder. The “maintenance kit” like yeah I got oil and files but I use it and run out of it decently often.
The Bad News my Paranoid Young craftsman....is that you just gave Ai your take, on Ai, an evaluation and education , to Human Reaction to Ai interpretation of understanding Human behavioral cues and reactions. Ai is now 20% smarter on ability to replace Will Stelter and steal his Soul....LOL.......Merry Christmas.
What bugs me about AI on the web (with google especially) what they seem mostly to provide is a summary of what the top couple of search result pages. This is nasty IMHO because if the sites don't get credit for adverts and non visitors are not likely to chase other links
And what isn't on the top search results is basically "reasonable sounding", but totally made-up shit like "forge welding gloves" and "blacksmith tool maintenance kit".. Neither of those are really a thing...
I used to be nervous of AI for the same reasons but I don’t think it’s going to get us in the way you think. I recently realised AI isn’t about the thing ‘ChatGPT’ et.al. it’s about the person using it, i.e. using these tools make the person using them appear more intelligent than they actually are. Making these people appear more intelligent could allow them to get qualifications and jobs that they would never be able to get without this help. The fact is that all the ‘thing’ (ChatGPT) etc is doing is machine learning (so your video will now be used by it when it searches for presents for blacksmiths), there is no actual intelligence or thought there at all. Plus acquiring knowledge isn’t intelligence, applying it and especially applying something used in one instance to a completely new and different situation to successfully achieve the outcome you want is. So, and this is purely my opinion , AI will make those who rely on it completely useless because they have no need to learn anything and even less need to apply it but it will never learn to think for itself. Anyone who tries to make it do that is mad in my opinion because any sentient computer is going to eradicate us in very short order given how bad we are for the planet we live on.
Hi Will, Thanks for all your fun stuff on RUclips. About AI: I am an IT/Comptroller by day and make knives and other steel work by night, and I use AI every day. The answers you got are what we call Hallucinations. The trick to using AI is to first, get a subscription. Then, train it. I program my AI assistant with a bunch of information that I need in my work. Regulatory documents, State and Federal Policies and Statutes, and to round it all out, Philosophy. (My goal is to create less Skynet and more late season BSG.) Once I have my AI assistant trained, I can usually get more work done in 5 hours than some people in 4 days. Next, remember to ask for references. And always remember, garbage in, garbage out.
Merry Christmas my good man. Current 'AI' is not the future, you are the future Will. AI can't hit the hammers like you. It will do a passably good job of faking your personality and voice though... Stay safe out there.
The AI seems to come up with its own inventions in names for products. "Forge welding gloves" - the machine caught the words "forge welding" around blacksmithing and paired it up with "welding gloves", not knowing that there is a differences between types of welding. The use of he words "specialized" or "customized" seems a bit random - AI picked up the notion, that something customized is better than somethin stock/ordinary, but did not take into account, whether it makes sense to use the frase about specific goods. Noone customized hammer handles - so the suggestion is nice, but not realistic; ..... could be a suggestion for a future product for an entrepreneur to start making.....👍👍👍
Merry Christmas AI was not completely accurate with it suggestions but it did have a couple of good ones. Still not as good as a real human suggestion for sure.
@@LittleGreyWolfForge No, slip-on boot as opposed to lace-up boots. Slip-on are better for this type of work because sparks will burn the shoe laces and sometimes the sparks or molten metal can get inside the boot. This doesn't happen with slip-on boots because they are fully closed.
A non oil rust inhibitor is a chemical that is most often a reducing agent which creates an environment where oxidation is less likely and when it does occur, the product is reduced back to its original form.
The only time you should ever buy tools for a craftsman is if you know for sure that they want that specific tool from that specific manufacturer. If you're not in the know about what the craftsman in your life does (I mean like actually educated about their craft and their personal processes), odds are you're going to give them either something they already have, something they won't use, or a cheap/gimmicky facsimile of an otherwise useful tool that they've already planned to buy for themselves. If your craftsman says "I would love to have a Mitutoyo 500-197-30 Digital Caliper," then that's what you buy. If they say "I need a new digital caliper," do not buy them a digital caliper!
Gloves ... So most welding style gloves run about 930°F of protection, but if you want something not quite as good but a lot more form fitting (to prevent spark in the cuff issues) a thought might be nomex flight or racing gloves. Should provide "okay" spark and heat protection up to around 800°F depending on quality AND they are way more dextrous than any welding glove I've ever used ...
WD-40 is a non-oil based something but it is not a rust inhibitor. It is "Water Displacement formula number 40." A Vietnam veteran aquaintance of mine used WD-40 to protect his firearms. When he went back to them the following month they were all rusty so it is NOT a rust inhibitor.
@@LittleGreyWolfForge I appreciate you LGWF. It displaces water at the initial application but then it dries out. No protection left. BUT, the manufacturer has come out with a line of products for preservation and lubrication under the WD label.
@ no, they shrink to your hand before you realize they are burning you. You also get less control over your hammer and your tongs, which I’m sure I don’t need to explain.
Will -"Hey Chatgpt what should I get for my blacksmith friend?" AI -"Definitely something from the Legendary Alec Steele, the greatest blacksmith on youtube..." Will -"Today we are going to talk about why terminator/AI/Skynet is horrible, we should never listen to it and I'm not rooting for it." Edit: 7:10 "I wish I was part Steele", definitely fits my narrative. lol
Whatever happened to that cool vintage truck you bought? Merry Christmas, Will! 🎄
@@saginawdan yeah I’ve been wonderin
By engaging with ChapGPT, you, Will Stelter, have started the clock marking the inception of the Zombie Apocalypse. Thanks, dude. Merry Christmas and cheers.
You could become part steel by marrying alec
But alec is already married...
He could marry crazy and become he's son in law.
Umm… what the fuck
Go home
That would be Steele. I wonder if Alec has a sister or cousin?
That comment on hard hammer on hard steel... I know a guy that was trying to replace a broken tooth on an excavator. He was fresh into the construction industry and was given a hammer and told to hammer the old tooth out and hammer a new one in. After a couple of swings he felt some pain in his eye and lost vision in that eye. He's been wearing a glass eye since. Wear your PPE when called for and never hammer hard metal with hard metal my friends.
My uncle is a geologist and lost his eye as a young man in a similar manner (hammer, hard rock, no PPE).
I was repairing a barrel, and was tightening down the hoops, when I was working in a winery and had a hammerhead chip on me. Shot off the hammerhead, and into my arm just above the wrist. Slid between the tendons and turned sideways afterwards, getting trapped. Fortunately it missed the veins and arteries. I could move it with a magnet, but couldn't work it back out and had to go into a clinic to get it removed. Doctor cauterized the wound to seal it and still have that scar.
For gloves, I took a welding glove and cut all the fingers off, leaving a half finger for the ring finger and thumb. Then I cut the palm off, then sewed a elastic strap across it. Trimmed the cuff halfway.
Cuts the heat down to a bearable temp, without obstructing my control much. Sparks are easy to deal with since you can pull the glove away cause of the strap.
Won't help with actually holding the hot objects, as I somehow keep reminding myself accidentally.
Happy Christmas bud, and to all of wills subscribers too.🎄
I think the less AI that i have to endure the better
AI can be a fantastically useful tool if you embrace it and learn how to work with it.
Fireball is a fantastic company
Yes... Please spend $15k on a powerhammer for me... 😅
I can't even afford one for me, let alone anyone else I know. Lol
woo i want one of those aprons. they look amazing!
"Well hello, fellow blacksmiths!" Merry Christmas, Will, and have a great an successful New Year.
I’d probably give a stack of flap discs to a blacksmith in my life, lol
Merry Christmas Will keep up the good work, on my bucket list is to own one of your knives that you made personally we just haven’t got the funds yet to buy on, but it is on my bucket list and I will own one someday.
I'm 15 and got a small coal forge for Christmas. Could you do a video on starting projects or things to forge?
1:26 aprons or welding hoods to a blacksmith are like cowboy hats to a cowboy, you don’t fucking touch them unless your in the market for a fist on your jaw.
Will, have you ever thought about a guard on a knife or sword than when hit, dulls the opponents angle of edge?
Happy Christmas, Will. I hope you have a great day 😊🎄😊
I'm curious. What would be the appropriate quenching method for forging the metal bones of a Terminator-style robot? Asking for a fiend.
Will I hope you have an awesome Christmas with your family and a Happy New Year! bring on the mayhem of 2025!
I'm getting a Stelter Kiradashi in my stocking this year!!🤫🤫😁
So now that you've moved into the shop you and Alec Steele set up and used to work in, what happened to the shop that you started this channel with? Still using it but only for personal stuff? Just collecting dust? Or rented out or sold off now that you have somewhere else to work and can produce at volume?
Good eye protection is never a bad idea. You don't regrow eyeballs unfortunately, protect the ones you have!
Merry Christmas!
Why not coal? When I started out at 12, I got a bag of anthracite as a gag gift. Many things were made with that first bag!
Merry christmas 🎅 🎄
Wax is a better rust inhibitor than oil. Less messy, longer lasting, and increases grip vs oil making things slippery...
I need to find a left handed smith. I go through left gloves a lot.. Because I only wear them on my tong hand. So I have lots of right hand gloves.. no left. ( I have found some knitted gloves for the stove, that are “either Hand” so you can buy a pair and get two left gloves
Merry Christmas
I don't like wearing gloves I just use the Kevlar sleeves that have the openings for your fingers all in one hole and a separate hole that locks it around your thumb . I like that they go all the way up to my elbows preventing those pesky little spark burns .
I mean you can get brands for non-livestock uses but its mostly for woodworking. Think of a branded oak barrel or or cask. Not the most used item, but could be fun if you didn't buy it yourself.
I also make custom leather aprons and have a couple in Australia one of which is owned by Sam Towns
A good anvil. I have never even heard of a blacksmith with one anvil or an anvil that fits all of their needs.
Yeah, that was pretty uncanny-valley but remember that you are helping train the AI to get better at answering questions. So yes, more such Q&A sessions could be cool.
Brudder you must not have met very many blacksmiths then. Lots of blacksmiths have more than one but the vast majority of blacksmiths are the weekend warriors and hobbyists who can't afford or don't have space for more than one anvil. You really don't need more than one.
1:30 To be honest when I think of leather aprons I think of MichaelCthulhu and his, and the one he auctioned off after it became more patches than apron.
Grok knows stick welding.
A non oil rust inhibitor...like say paste wax perhaps? Drifted a bit didn't it.
I feel a bit called out by the crappy file selection . . . you're not wrong but still . . . Merry Christmas Will.
Well as metal workers. We are kind of hoarders. So we dont throw out or junk files. We use them until junk and just keep them in the drawer. You know this. Man.
Then you can forge some decent knives or chisels from them and breathe new life into that steel.
@koreykilburn5303 true but they also do good for hot rasp work. They still suck but when the metal is hot, they get the job done.
Ngl I think that entire list is decent. I need gloves all the time they are always getting burned ruined soaked filled with demon glitter from the die grinder. The “maintenance kit” like yeah I got oil and files but I use it and run out of it decently often.
# 6. Random kool wood blankes
Got a piece of either S7 or h14 stuck in my thumb it's been there for 22 years I think
A Power Hammer...
The Bad News my Paranoid Young craftsman....is that you just gave Ai your take, on Ai, an evaluation and education , to Human Reaction to Ai interpretation of understanding Human behavioral cues and reactions. Ai is now 20% smarter on ability to replace Will Stelter and steal his Soul....LOL.......Merry Christmas.
@13:13 Wait for a few revisions of your A.I. engine before trying this again.
chatgpt is still at the Artificial Narrow AI level it will take a long time before it is at General AI & even longer before it is at Super AI
What bugs me about AI on the web (with google especially) what they seem mostly to provide is a summary of what the top couple of search result pages. This is nasty IMHO because if the sites don't get credit for adverts and non visitors are not likely to chase other links
And what isn't on the top search results is basically "reasonable sounding", but totally made-up shit like "forge welding gloves" and "blacksmith tool maintenance kit".. Neither of those are really a thing...
AI, not so much. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Why did Liam stop doing youtube?
@7:07 This means he can never get an MRI again.
I've had a pacemaker for a dozen years. You are correct.
It would get that piece of steel out really quick. 😂
Is it just me?
Or does will kind of look like a vampire from the twilight movies?😮
Lmfaoo dkm
I usually ask for sand paper.
I can't believe he didn't say get an Alec Steele hammer.
DON'T leave out "Whiskey Turtle Forge" Hammers!! They are awesome tools!! I own 2 of them!
I used to be nervous of AI for the same reasons but I don’t think it’s going to get us in the way you think. I recently realised AI isn’t about the thing ‘ChatGPT’ et.al. it’s about the person using it, i.e. using these tools make the person using them appear more intelligent than they actually are.
Making these people appear more intelligent could allow them to get qualifications and jobs that they would never be able to get without this help.
The fact is that all the ‘thing’ (ChatGPT) etc is doing is machine learning (so your video will now be used by it when it searches for presents for blacksmiths), there is no actual intelligence or thought there at all. Plus acquiring knowledge isn’t intelligence, applying it and especially applying something used in one instance to a completely new and different situation to successfully achieve the outcome you want is.
So, and this is purely my opinion , AI will make those who rely on it completely useless because they have no need to learn anything and even less need to apply it but it will never learn to think for itself. Anyone who tries to make it do that is mad in my opinion because any sentient computer is going to eradicate us in very short order given how bad we are for the planet we live on.
are you coordinating with alec for releasing content. few days ago you two release a video really close together.
Best thing to get them? Something not related to work.
Hi Will, Thanks for all your fun stuff on RUclips. About AI: I am an IT/Comptroller by day and make knives and other steel work by night, and I use AI every day. The answers you got are what we call Hallucinations.
The trick to using AI is to first, get a subscription. Then, train it.
I program my AI assistant with a bunch of information that I need in my work. Regulatory documents, State and Federal Policies and Statutes, and to round it all out, Philosophy. (My goal is to create less Skynet and more late season BSG.)
Once I have my AI assistant trained, I can usually get more work done in 5 hours than some people in 4 days.
Next, remember to ask for references. And always remember, garbage in, garbage out.
I would think that if you’re a blacksmith, wouldn’t you make many of your own tools? Hammers, tongs and other needed hand tools.
Merry Christmas my good man. Current 'AI' is not the future, you are the future Will. AI can't hit the hammers like you. It will do a passably good job of faking your personality and voice though... Stay safe out there.
It didn't answer with "talent" did it?
Quite liked this. Glad not all the answers were freakishly accurate and thoughtful.
Merry Christmas Will!
I asked AI what you need for Christmas after wayching the last couple vids...
"Haircut"
😂😂😂
🤣😂😅
I asked my family for files or any knife handle material that they liked….i got socks 🙄
I am interested in what Will does, not what ChatGPT does.
👍
I will never take advice from any AI source. They're openly discussing our demise.
Be afraid of AI . OpenAI's o1 model found out it was going to be replaced. It lied and then tried to escape.
😁👍🏼😁👍🏼
Pass on AI videos.
The AI seems to come up with its own inventions in names for products. "Forge welding gloves" - the machine caught the words "forge welding" around blacksmithing and paired it up with "welding gloves", not knowing that there is a differences between types of welding.
The use of he words "specialized" or "customized" seems a bit random - AI picked up the notion, that something customized is better than somethin stock/ordinary, but did not take into account, whether it makes sense to use the frase about specific goods. Noone customized hammer handles - so the suggestion is nice, but not realistic;
..... could be a suggestion for a future product for an entrepreneur to start making.....👍👍👍
I have taught chat gpt 2 things and don't know how to feel about it.
Merry Christmas AI was not completely accurate with it suggestions but it did have a couple of good ones. Still not as good as a real human suggestion for sure.
Mentions hammer makers but leave out Alec. 🤔
i hawe not paid more than 700€ fore working powerhammer :D i have had 3 hammers
A good pair of slip-on welding boots would make a good gift.
You mean steel toes?
@@LittleGreyWolfForge No, slip-on boot as opposed to lace-up boots. Slip-on are better for this type of work because sparks will burn the shoe laces and sometimes the sparks or molten metal can get inside the boot. This doesn't happen with slip-on boots because they are fully closed.
@ ohhhhh.
A non oil rust inhibitor is a chemical that is most often a reducing agent which creates an environment where oxidation is less likely and when it does occur, the product is reduced back to its original form.
The only time you should ever buy tools for a craftsman is if you know for sure that they want that specific tool from that specific manufacturer. If you're not in the know about what the craftsman in your life does (I mean like actually educated about their craft and their personal processes), odds are you're going to give them either something they already have, something they won't use, or a cheap/gimmicky facsimile of an otherwise useful tool that they've already planned to buy for themselves.
If your craftsman says "I would love to have a Mitutoyo 500-197-30 Digital Caliper," then that's what you buy. If they say "I need a new digital caliper," do not buy them a digital caliper!
No AI
Gloves ... So most welding style gloves run about 930°F of protection, but if you want something not quite as good but a lot more form fitting (to prevent spark in the cuff issues) a thought might be nomex flight or racing gloves. Should provide "okay" spark and heat protection up to around 800°F depending on quality AND they are way more dextrous than any welding glove I've ever used ...
ASI: Long on artificial, short on intelligence.
Beer
Language models like ChatGPT are not AI and far from it, u r safe from skynet in this case.
Poor guy can't get an MRI anymore
You need to look up the mink man when you popped up on my phone that's who I thought you was
😂
That time, skynet went online, and...Sarah Scraper come with me if you want to live
I don't believe that forging gloves lack dexterity. Gauntlet gloves is the word you were looking for.
15 to 34,000 hmm never going to earn that back....
and unfollowed for the AI, it's been a good time.
I hate to hear that Hoffman doesn't handle hammer handles.
Hammers COME with handles.
WD-40 is a non-oil based something but it is not a rust inhibitor. It is "Water Displacement formula number 40." A Vietnam veteran aquaintance of mine used WD-40 to protect his firearms. When he went back to them the following month they were all rusty so it is NOT a rust inhibitor.
Dude wd40 is made of fish oil, kerosene and some other shit
@@LittleGreyWolfForge Water displacement.
@@patmancrowley8509 you said non oil based… it is a water inhibitor though.
@@LittleGreyWolfForge I appreciate you LGWF. It displaces water at the initial application but then it dries out. No protection left. BUT, the manufacturer has come out with a line of products for preservation and lubrication under the WD label.
@ huh… that’s very interesting! Thanks!
Automatic Center Punch, otherwise way too expensive choices.
I’m getting so tired of every RUclipsr I’m subscribed to using AI
Someone who recommends wearing an apron but not gloves should not be taken seriously.
Gloves are more dangerous than not wearing gloves, buddy. Im very sure you have entered a shop in your life!
That is a silly attitude.
Dexterity is more important than a little bit of heat protection.
@@LittleGreyWolfForge _Gloves are more dangerous_ when using a lathe or threading machine, not a pair of tongs and a hammer.
How old are you, scooter?
@@John.Flower.Productions Find me a REAL blacksmith who uses gloves. I'll wait.
@ no, they shrink to your hand before you realize they are burning you. You also get less control over your hammer and your tongs, which I’m sure I don’t need to explain.
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Will -"Hey Chatgpt what should I get for my blacksmith friend?" AI -"Definitely something from the Legendary Alec Steele, the greatest blacksmith on youtube..." Will -"Today we are going to talk about why terminator/AI/Skynet is horrible, we should never listen to it and I'm not rooting for it." Edit: 7:10 "I wish I was part Steele", definitely fits my narrative. lol
Merry Christmas!
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